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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Comparison of Unit Rates

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert rates to unit rates and compare the unit rates.
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Virtual Nerd

Virtual Nerd: How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using Unit Rates?

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Word problems allow you to see the real world uses of math! This tutorial shows you how to take a rate and convert it to a unit rate. Then, you can use that unit rate to calculate your answer. Watch this tutorial to learn all about it!
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PBS

Pbs: Shower vs. Bath: Ratio and Rate

For Students 6th - 8th
Compare the cost of taking a shower with the cost of taking a bath. This interactive exercise focuses on using what you know about ratios to make a prediction about whether a shower or a bath is most cost effective and then requires...
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Common Core Sheets

Common Core Sheets: Rate Language 6.rp.2 Worksheets

For Teachers 6th
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of ratio concepts.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Unit Rates

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students learn to find unit rates. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice problems.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp the Escalator, Assessment Variation

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Students demonstrate their understanding of the concept of ratio and unit rate association with a ratio.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Making the Most of Rates and Unit Rates!

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will be making sense of problems and looking for structure in this lesson about real life rates and unit rates.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Mangos for Sale

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use ratios and unit rates to answer this performance task.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: Life Expectancy: Finding Ratio Relationships

For Students 6th - 8th
In this interactive map, learn how life expectancy, obesity, hypertension, and physical activity rates have changed dramatically throughout the United States over the last three decades. The accompanying classroom activity supports...
Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Proportion Playground

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive simulation that teaches about ratios, proportional reasoning, and unit rate by making predictions and testing proportions while designing a necklace, throwing balloons filled with paint, playing billiards, or shopping for...
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Exploring Changing Obesity Rates Through Ratios and Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
In these KQED Lowdown infographics, explore how adult obesity rates in the United States, as measured by body mass index (BMI), have dramatically changed in the past half-century. A circular graph and a pictograph depict data by decade,...
Activity
Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Percents Are Ratios

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This Math Page tutorial explains how percents are ratios and then features a practice exercise.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing: Ratio and Rate [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learners explore the concepts of rate and ratio in a variety of problem-solving situations. Worksheets contain definitions and visual representations of concepts. Link to related ratio game. Other skills include measurement, data...
Handout
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ratios and Fractions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A seventh-grade student is having trouble understanding ratios, fractions, and simplest form. Dr. Math to the rescue! Real-world, easy to grasp examples.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Units

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this exercise, students solve word problems that involve using different units. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Performance Task (2 Days)

For Teachers 6th
This lesson is a performance task based on their learning of ratios. Students will be using their knowledge of ratios and unit rates to create their own pizza.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Rate Review

For Students 6th Standards
Explains what rates and unit rates are, and how unit rates are used for solving problems. Includes a practice problem.
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PBS

Pbs: Real Life Math: Production Scheduler

For Students 6th - 8th
Production scheduler Jessi Felde explains how she uses math in her work in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students watch the video and then complete an activity involving one aspects of math that Ms. Felde...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Percent as a Ratio

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find the percent using a ratio and find a ratio using a percent. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you are told the correct answer....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Cool Kool Aid Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity allows students to practice writing and solving rates by conducting an experiment to find the best tasting Kool-Aid mixture. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Walk a Thon 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is for middle schoolers to translate information about a context involving constant speed into information presented in a table and to find the time it takes to travel a unit distance as well as the distance...
Interactive
Doina Popovici

Math Play: Unit Rate Halloween Math Game

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An online math game where students match unit rates in different forms.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Converting Square Units

For Teachers 6th Standards
In this task, 6th graders must inches to feet in order to find the area of a rectangular board and explain the error in the calculations made by the board owner. Aligns with 6.RP.A.3.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Comparing Rates

For Students 5th - 7th
Example problem: Three different stores are offering a deal on pencils. Which store has the lowest price per pencil? Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

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